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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1881
Page
4
Readable parts show minute and hour markers for passenger and freight trains. Entries mention times such as 2:55 AM and 10:30 AM with note of freight and accommodation services, though many digits and letters are garbled.
A collage of shop notes and upcoming events from Monticello papers includes Lon's candy and crackers ads, Moody Bros clothing at cost, Schaef fer Co fur trimmings, and a bird concert at the Congregational church with ten cent admission. Also listed are farm auctions, new hotel progress, oleomargarine chatter, and weather-hit duck hunting notes.
A long advertisement page lists Gardner Wrights and Cummings as oyster and grocery suppliers. It notes Tryon selling fresh groceries and cigars, Uncle Tom's Cabin at E M Thompsons, and a range of items from linens to frames. Local officials change with H M Wright resigning Janitor post and W W Culkin taking over, plus upcoming events and community notices.
Community items describe sales at Moody Bros and Gardner & Wright, a smallpox vaccination offer, a dance at Bowen’s Prairie, a loaded revolver accident at Tryon’s store, and a Ghost Sociable hosted by the Ladies Library Association. Reports cover weather, agriculture, and a railroad annual accident tally, with notices about theater and lodging in town.
Rev. F. M. Robertson will move to Decorah Iowa this week to lead the M E Church there which has been pastorless since Conference. New members of Brinkly Commandery No 16 Knights Templars are named including ROP Smith H C FS Dunham Gen Henry Minnett and others. Special meeting planned for next Friday for practice and the following week for work with a Red Cross order and a banquet to follow. The potato market and a suicide attempt near Davenport are also noted along with Monticello banking and creamery concerns.
The Monticello Mail reports a new Monticello Mails Co store opening in Coyle's block opposite the Post Office with a large stock of flour sugar and feed all delivered locally. It covers concerns over adulterated groceries from Chicago merchants and favors local merchants offering fair prices and prompt service.
A fragment discusses Independence readers preferring entertaining talkers over accuracy. It cites a Berlin newspaper’s critique of Tank Kee and the Mosrttonino Express editor, noting accusations of deliberate falsehood and praising Kee’s entertaining style to an Independence audience.
Personal notes detail Dr S F Bentley returning from Battle Creek with Klos Patereats and Mrs Win Weir coming home from a visit to her husband in Blairsburg. Messages mention Major Patwell’s Friday gathering with Miss Blade WH Tian of Adamo visiting Monticelo, and Mrs Marvin’s trip to Rochester Minnesota with sister Ming Moody.
A train wreck occurred last Monday near Anticona when an axle failure caused a tender derailment, throwing the baggage car and passenger coach off the track. Conductor Wignrw and passenger Ate Wagner were injured while most aboard escaped harm as the train blocked the line and was later dispatched to the hospital. The incident follows other accidents at this location, with the railroad facing heavy losses. The dissolution of the Coyle & Mead partnership is also announced, directing payments to J A Coyle and associates.
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